With* Kamina

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With* Kamina

The With* Kamina program in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a great example of using integrated mission work for sustainable results. This approach can be modeled across the African continent by strategically linking UMCOR programs of health, agriculture and nutrition, and water and sanitation, with NGO programs.

Thirty community volunteers/workers were identified through the Kamina Health Center community volunteer initiative. They were organized and trained by a core team, composed of an agronomist and a project manager, to implement water and sanitation programs, as well as basic hygiene programs.

Based on the needs assessment of participants, the program will unfold in three phases over a three-year period:

1. Agriculture Phase—This will serve as the largest component, composed of 30 individual farms for each community volunteer, as well as a collective farm to be expanded with each year. Crops are currently focused on soybeans, beans, vegetables, and corn, with the possibility for diversification as the program expands.

2. Hygiene Phase—Latrines will be dug at strategic points within the communities.

3. Safe/Clean Water Phase—A locally manufactured water filter will be developed by community volunteers to be marketed to the local population. Volunteers will conduct trainings on the usage and importance of safe drinking water. Cisterns or borehole wells will also be dug in communities in the future.

The overall, multi-year integration program is expected to include increased access to health services, improved agricultural techniques and ways to get products to market, as well as improved water and sanitation systems.

You can partner with the Kamina community in DRC by giving to Integrated Community Development, UMCOR Advance #3021301 and designating your gift for “With* Kamina.” [Give now]

To support other critically important work where it is needed most around the world, please give to UMCOR Undesignated, UMCOR Advance #999895. [Give now]

Learn more at www.ministryWITH.org

Quick Facts

• The Ministry With the Poor program in Kamina is beginning its program by focusing on training 30 community-health workers in water and sanitation, community health, and sustainable agriculture.
  
  
• Community-health workers are in the position to share their information with communities throughout the area surrounding the town of Kamina, increasing the impact of the project.
  
  
• All 30 community-health workers have attended sustainable-agriculture and development training, which included introducing soy and Moringa crops to increase local nutrition.
  
  
• In 2010, UMCOR distributed more than 15,000 insecticide-treated mosquito nets in Kamina to children under age 5 and pregnant women to help reduce malaria transmission.
  
  
• UMCOR has begun to establish household bio-sand water filters to help provide clean water to families in need.
  
  
• In 2010, UMCOR constructed two community wells in Kamina, providing 5,000 people with improved access to clean water.
  
  
• UMCOR constructed three latrines at a primary school with approximately 2,000 students.